THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF SULFUR DIOXIDE
THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF SULFUR DIOXIDE
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DOI:
10.1107/s0365110x5200109x
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发表时间:
1952-01-01
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通讯作者:
FANKUCHEN, I
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作者:
POST, B;SCHWARTZ, RS;FANKUCHEN, I
Oscillation diagrams have been obtained of single crystals of sulfur dioxide at--130~ 5 C. The unit cell is orthorhombic and contains four molecules. Cell dimensions are: a----6.07, b----5.94, c----6.14 A (all-}-0.01/~). The most probable space group is Aba. The four sulfur atoms in the unit cell lie in face-centered positions. The parameters of the oxygen atom are: x-0.140, y----0.150, z-----0.118. The length of the SO bond is 1.430~ 0.015/k, the intramolecular 0-O distance is 2.46~: 0.01 A; the OSO angle is 119±2.Introduction Giauque & Jones (1948) have reported calorimetric evidence of disorder in solid sulfur dioxide close to the melting point. To account for the disorder they postulated a structure in which adjacent molecules are paired with their molecular planes 90 apart and with the 0-0 sides of the triangles together. A structure of this type, it was felt, offered a number of possibilities for orientational disorder. Sulfur dioxide is one of a large number of substances of chemical importance whose crystal structures have not been studied because they happen to be liquids or gases at room temperature. Techniques and ap-paratus have been developed which make single-crystal X-ray investigations of such compounds feasible down to the temperature of liquid air (Kauf-man & Fankuchen, 1949; Abrahams, Collin, IApscomb & Reed, 1950; Post, Schwartz & Fankuchen, 1951). In this paper the determination of the crystal structure of sulfur dioxide, using these techniques, is described.